Word: limited
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...applying for a license to serve malt beverages in the house dining halls, the University has acted with exemplary promptness and vigour. What the Massachusetts legislature's twenty-one year age limit had left possible, the University has done. But the principal value of its action will be in bringing to a head, and in making efficient, the opposition which exists to the twenty-one year limit itself...
...would be difficult to imagine any situation more undesirable than the arbitrary internal division which the enforcement of an age limit will make necessary. The responsibility which the university assumes to see that no one under twenty-one sits at the reserved tables means, in practice, that the dining hall management must set up a card system for admission to them, and that this system will be administered by the hostess and waitresses, with the Cambridge police in the offing. It means, further, that the house will divide along age lines, which are not the lines that dining hall comradeship...
...student body will not tolerate it long. Their target, which has been the University, is now the Massachusetts Legislature, and they must address that target with force and diligence. A concession might be made in the form of the stronger malt beverages, of porter and ale, but the limit itself must be reduced to eightees years. Not only the convenience of the marginal group is involved, but also that necessity for same and enforceable law upon which so much of the repeal propaganda itself was based...
...case that trade associations are allowed 'carte blanche' to limit output and determine prices, it is almost certain that the associations will commence charging monopolistic prices, and will force them upon the public...
...There are certain code mechanisms already adopted that limit machine hours, prevent the substitution of machines for human labor, set minimum prices, and prevent the sale of commodities at less than cost. Through all these methods the N.R.A. is pointing the way for monopolistic price-fixing and limitation of output. The consumer is very likely to be seriously injured, and therefore it is in his behalf that I oppose the N.R.A...